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ing in the furrow between them. This gives 

 an immediate neatnefs ; renders the crop beau- 

 tiful at firft coming up ; anticipates the labour 

 of rolling in the fpring; and thereby precludes 

 the danger of unlocking the weed-feeds at that 

 vegetative fcafon of the year. 



VII. The vegetating-process. — Hand- 

 •weeding is the principal labour beflowed upon 

 the wheat-crop between feed-time and harvefl. 

 If the interfurrows be wide and thin of plants, 

 or if the crop be otherwifc broken, the hoc is 

 fometimcs, but very rarely, ufed. 



Feeding wheat in the fpring, though It can- 

 not be called a common practice, is, never- 

 thelefs, frequently done ; efpecially when 

 fpring-feed is peculiarly fcarcc, as it was in the 

 fpring of 1782; when almofl all the wheats 

 in the country were fed off: not by fheep, as is 

 ufually the cafe, but by every other fpecies of 

 live ftock. See Min. 106. 



If wheat abound with " red weed" — pop- 

 pies — ■fw'me are frequently turned upon it to 

 eat out this troublefome weed ; which they will 

 do, with little or no damage to the wheat. 



For 



